Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
Aim at being loved without being admired.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
Ambition is the death of thought.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
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